Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Cup \Cup\ (k[u^]p), n. [AS. cuppe, LL. cuppa cup; cf. L. cupa
   tub, cask; cf. also Gr. ky`ph hut, Skr. k[=u]pa pit, hollow,
   OSlav. kupa cup. Cf. {Coop}, {Cupola}, {Cowl} a water vessel,
   and {Cob}, {Coif}, {Cop}.]
   1. A small vessel, used commonly to drink from; as, a tin
      cup, a silver cup, a wine cup; especially, in modern
      times, the pottery or porcelain vessel, commonly with a
      handle, used with a saucer in drinking tea, coffee, and
      the like.

   2. The contents of such a vessel; a cupful.

            Give me a cup of sack, boy.           --Shak.

   3. pl. Repeated potations; social or excessive indulgence in
      intoxicating drinks; revelry.

            Thence from cups to civil broils.     --Milton.

   4. That which is to be received or indured; that which is
      allotted to one; a portion.

            O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass
            from me.                              --Matt. xxvi.
                                                  39.

   5. Anything shaped like a cup; as, the cup of an acorn, or of
      a flower.

            The cowslip's golden cup no more I see. --Shenstone.

   6. (Med.) A cupping glass or other vessel or instrument used
      to produce the vacuum in cupping.

   {Cup and ball}, a familiar toy of children, having a cup on
      the top of a piece of wood to which, a ball is attached by
      a cord; the ball, being thrown up, is to be caught in the
      cup; bilboquet. --Milman.

   {Cup and can}, familiar companions.

   {Dry cup}, {Wet cup} (Med.), a cup used for dry or wet
      cupping. See under {Cupping}.

   {To be in one's cups}, to be drunk.